I'd say double standards don't exist as much as contradictions. Can women get away with some shit in power, and proclaim to be helping people but other women are still being screwed over?

Yes. That's called Queen Victoria and Czarina Catherine the First.

But I'm somewhat confused at this now 'we're the oppressed nao" vibe, as if we're relieved that finally we aren't the oppressors anymore. when it's not true, just the game got more complicated and Uncle Toms and Aunt Marys can exist in many forms.

(06-01-2013 11:22 PM)Raskolnikov Wrote: I'm confused at how the above is 'double standards'.

Simple: the above is generally accepted as funny, cute, or even a little bit crazy MILFs, 'hockey moms' (going ape over Justin Bieber). Sounds innocuous enough, doesn't it? While the opposite – middle-aged men cheering a 17 year old girl group – would be readily condemned in the public eye as dirty old men, and their photos would be compared with data bases of known paedophile sex offenders. That's the double standard.